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I just tonight realized one of the things that really made me lose what little respect I had for LKH as a writer. It was her use of a "blue moon"(1) as a reason for werewolves to go nutzoid gonzo.

Yeah that makes sense, eh? Let's make a fairly modern and quite arbitrary calendar which really doesn't properly base itself on solar nor lunar cycles give an improperly labelled lunar event more power over certain lycanthropes. Lycanthropese which, according to the series mythos, have been changing shape since before the rise of the calendar in question.

Bitch please. You're not even trying anymore.

(- Still trying to get through Incubus Dreams. After a decent first few pages, it's swiftly devolved into the all too familiar pain that is EVERY Anita Blake book since Burnt Offerings Why do I keep reading them when I hate the main characters so much? It's for the same reason you really can't help but jam your tongue into the empty socket of a removed tooth.

(1) A second full moon within a calendar month.

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*gets "Blue Moon" in her head*

*blames you*

*shakes her fist in your general direction*

... " I saw you standing, alone " ...

(- runs and hides because he's not moderately tigerproof no matter what his reputation may say to the contrary. -)

Dude. And I have friends trying to convince me to read that stuff. *shudder*

See, that's my dilemna. I loved the earlier books and would recommend them to anyone who wants some good fairyfloss emptycalorie reading. Basically for the same reason someone would pick up a Mercedes Lackey book.

Actually, Anita Blake's original similarities to Diane Tregard was one of the reasons I picked up the series to begin with. But throughout the course of the series I developed a great dislike for the "big three" ( Anita, Richard and Jean Clod, errr I mean Claude ). The angst that drips off the main characters is something you expect from a WB series.

I recommend the earlier books. If you want my opinion of where to stop reading, stop just before Burnt Offerings. Then again YMMV.

Oh PS, one of the main reasons I do keep reading them is she's fairly spot on with the dialogue she gives the bodyguards.

Kinda makes me think she's pumping

gruamach for information.

"If I let you die. All the other bodyguards will make fun of me."

I like that quote. Is it from one of her books, or a random one for bodyguards that sums up the way they feel?

Both

Ah... well I'll enjoy it for both reasons!

Next, on Coffee talk, why do most of Anne Rice's vampire novels contain a spanking episode? Discuss.

Speaking of which, (witch?)- One could make many of the same arguements (combining one system of measuring time for another and giving it special powers) with the phrase "Witching Hour".

okay.... i know i have absolutely NO knowledge in this little slice of hoojoo fun reads society, but i just need to say one thing:

it's not real.

thank you. we now take you back to your regularly scheduled fwapping.

by the way, http://www.leasticoulddo.com/index2.php?date=20050915

Heh, been reading that since before the previous artist before the current one started.

Honestly, I prefer the former artist over this one. I'd probably not be reading the strip if I had started with the current one.

believe me, reading the entire thing on dial up has been a bitch. i'm about 1/2 way through september of 05 and i started reading this thing after my 3rd last post.

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Heh, I bet the rabid fans of hers from back in the days I was a member of the fan e-list still shutter at my memory.

Either that or they've blotted me out of their memory like the creepy "uncle" their mommy would bring over when daddy was out of town.